[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 0/2] Disable Android low memory killer

[Chris Wilson]

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 10:27:22AM +0100, tim.gore at intel.com wrote:
> From: Tim Gore <tim.gore at intel.com>
> 
> For some tests that put pressure on memory, the Android
> lowmemorykiller needs to be disabled for the test to run to
> completion. The first patch is a simple bit of preparation
> to ensure that all (well written) "simple" tests exit via a
> call to igt_exit, in the same way as tests with subtests do.
> This is to make sure we can clean up by re-enabling the
> lowmemorykiller.
> The second patch is to disable the Android lowmemorykiller
> during the common initialisation code (in oom_adjust_for_doom
> to be exact) and to re-enstate it in igt_exit.

Isn't this just a huge red flag that the kernel is incompatible with our
UMA allocation strategy and that by masking the issue we will never be
motivated to fix it?
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre